Orchid Classics

Inspired by the great virtuoso violinist and composer Henryk Wieniawski, this intriguing programme devised by the violinist Gwendolyn Masin borrows its title from one of his most famous works,... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Captivatingly phrased, strongly characterised and atmospherically recorded, Masin’s inspired programme appears to emerge languorously from a heat-haze. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Rudin is musically very satisfying and technically impeccable. I hope my strong recommendation will attract curious listeners to venture off the beaten path. They will be amply rewarded. — Fanfare, May/June 2022 More…

The trio of concertos – each of which features piano plus another solo instrument – forms a surprisingly satisfying programme, with lighter, exuberant Shostakovich and Saint-Saens framing Berg’s... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

In music that so many pianists play merely for thrills and bravura, she proves a thoughtful artist with a wonderfully flexible sense of line and tempo...there's always a sense of a musing, meditative... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…we can savour the extraordinary detail and subtle dovetailing of Korngold's orchestral writing as never before as Trusler weaves in and out of the textures with the heightened instincts of... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

There's so much sensitive give and take between the four instruments here, so much intimacy and subtle variation of colour, that the feeling is that these are Romantic chamber gems comparable... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…